HIS 102: FINAL EXAM
81 Cards in this Set
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Baby boom
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Biggest generation ever
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Limited War
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War that can't be fought hard enough to win
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North Vietnam
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Communist part of Vietnam
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Cambodia, Laos
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Where the Viet Cong can hide
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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President during the Vietnam War
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West Moreland
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American Commander in Vietnam (military advisor to Johnson)
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It would be easy and fast
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What West Moreland told Johnson about Vietnam
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Draft
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Recruiting men to fill army positions
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Go to college
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Easiest way out of the draft
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15 million
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number of people that deferred from the draft
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One year tour of duty
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Amount of time that a soldier spent in Vietnam
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PTSD
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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1968
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Year that America stopped supporting the war
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Ho Chi Minh
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Leader of Vietnam
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Washington
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Author of the book that Ho Chi Minh read
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Ho Chi Minh
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"You will kill 10 of us, we will kill one of you, and you will tire first."
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Guerilla
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Elusive, runs away
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Helicopter
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New weapon used in Vietnam by US
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The US
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Lost the Vietnam War
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The Battle of the IA Drang Valley
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First big battle in Vietnam
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Body Count
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What mattered in battles in Vietnam
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1%
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Percentage of Search and Destroy Operations that were successful
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January 31, 1968
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The TET offensive
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McNamara
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Secretary of Defense that said we were going to lose
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Clifford
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Next secretary of defense
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Cronkite
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Flew to Vietnam to look around
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Weinberger Doctrine
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Ronald Raegan; America will only fight wars to win
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Arab-Israeli Wars
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Series of Wars between Arabs and Israelis
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Blitzkrieg
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German way of fighting that America tries to adopt
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Computers and microchips
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Revolution in how America fights
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Afghanistan
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Country that didn't want Russia to be in charge
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Russia
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Tried to establish government in Afghanistan
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Mujahedeen
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Afghan fighters that rose up against the Soviets
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Islam
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Unites the Mujahedeen
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Jihad
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Holy War
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Russia
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The US enemy in the Cold War
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The US
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Joins the Mujahedeen
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Bin Laden
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Leader of Al Qaeda
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Al Qaeda
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Arabic for "The Base"
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Wahhabism
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Type of radical Islam that wants a return to the year 631
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1989
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Russia is out of Afghanistan
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The US loses interest. Afghanistan becomes the poorest country on Earth
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What happens to Afghanistan after the Mujahedeen is gone?
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Taliban
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Take over Afghanistan after the US leaves them alone
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Saddam Hussein
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Dictator of Iraq (Secular Leader)
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Kuwait
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Has a lot of oil
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Operation Desert Shield
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US troops go to Saudi Arabia
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Operation Desert Storm
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The US invasion of Kuwait
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Carbon Filaments
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The first US bombs dropped on Iraq
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Saddam Hussein
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Bin Laden's enemy
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The US
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Who Saudi Arabia turns to
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Carlos Marighella
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Brazilian Military Theorist (Terror)
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Operation Enduring Freedom
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The Attack in Afghanistan after 9/11
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Cheney
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VP during 9/11
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Donald Rumsfeld
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Secretary of Defense during 9/11
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October 7, 2001
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The US invades Afghanistan
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Northern Alliance
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Afghan Fighters against the Taliban
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
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US did something or another idk
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Powell
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Secretary of State
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The Invasion of Iraq
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March 21, 2003
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General Buford Blunt
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General the invaded and conquered Baghdad
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Paul Bremmer
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Civilian who thinks he knows better than the military? (Baghdad)
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Israel
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Since WWI, Jews have been moving back to this area
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Palestinians
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Occupied Israel before the Jews started moving back
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Palestinian Refugees
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Palestinians who move somewhere or something idk
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Arafet
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Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization
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Launches terrorist strikes into Israel
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What Arafet does
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Jordanians
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Declared War on the PLO
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Marines
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The US sends the ___ to stand between Israel and the PLO
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Jim Crowe
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The practices and policies that enforced white supremacy
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Mississippi
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First state to guarantee separation
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Poll Tax
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Tax to prevent African Americans from voting
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Homer Plessy
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Challenged the separation in train cars
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One drop rule
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1 ancestor out of 32 black
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Plessy vs Fergusson
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Led to legalization of separation
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The Red Summer
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Race Riots
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Executive Order 8802
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prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry.
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Eastland
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Accused African American soldiers
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Wagner
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Disproved Eastland
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Medgar Evers
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Field Secretary for the NAACP
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Kennard
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USM guy
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James Farmer
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Cofounded CORE
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HIS 102: EXAM 1